Stoner\Doom\Sludge amps that can do the Meshuggah thing.

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If you were forced to play one song in F#, and to keep it tighter than a nun's bank account during tough times at the church, while also being able to lay incredible amounts of filth down in drop C... what amp would you choose?
 
My Hermansson Marshall mod. With the tightness knob, the amp does fairly loose to insanely tight, with zero boost pedals required.

I am mostly an ERG guy, I do play some E standard, but I am mainly playing in drop C or 7 & 8s, and I have not come across an amp-pedal combo that is as tight as this amp is straight in. I had a Fortin Meshuggah before, which did Meshuggah with a Fortin 33, and my Hermansson with the high-mid boost switch engaged can achieve that sound while being tighter and fatter at the same time. When looking for those saggier/sludgier tones, it's as easy as turning the tightness down and switching the built-in low-mid boost on.
 
Rectifier. Just use an 808 with the gain off and level set to around unity to tighten it. Off when you want the wall of sound back.
 
Probably the Orange Rockerverb 100 Mk3, with a boost. I was pretty shocked by the insane amount of gain that amp has. Even the clean channel with a boost pedal was like death metal levels of gain
 
DeathbyButterslax said:
My Hermansson Marshall mod. With the tightness knob, the amp does fairly loose to insanely tight, with zero boost pedals required.

I am mostly an ERG guy, I do play some E standard, but I am mainly playing in drop C or 7 & 8s, and I have not come across an amp-pedal combo that is as tight as this amp is straight in. I had a Fortin Meshuggah before, which did Meshuggah with a Fortin 33, and my Hermansson with the high-mid boost switch engaged can achieve that sound while being tighter and fatter at the same time. When looking for those saggier/sludgier tones, it's as easy as turning the tightness down and switching the built-in low-mid boost on.
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See a lot of people doing this on JCM900 SL-Xs... what model do you have?
 
Cameron Aldrich with the one extra gain knob can go from stupid tight to sludge doom sound.

You’re gonna laugh, but the old Randall RG100ES can get stupid tight and sludgy as well. You just need to know how to set it up.
 
"The Meshuggah thing" has more to do with boost pedals than amps. I'd say take your favourite doom amp and throw a TC integrated preamp variant (Fortin Grind/33, Pepers Dirty Tree etc) at it and it'll usually do the job.
 
I was close to pulling the trigger on the Hermansson. He is a fucking artist for sure. Amp is everything you could possibly need.
 
godgrinder said:
"The Meshuggah thing" has more to do with boost pedals than amps. I'd say take your favourite doom amp and throw a TC integrated preamp variant (Fortin Grind/33, Pepers Dirty Tree etc) at it and it'll usually do the job.
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This. Until you get to the hermannsons and larrys and etc, "tight" is mostly about boost pedals in front of whatever the fuck you want.
 
RaceU4her said:
the first time i saw meshuggah was damn near like a religious experience and they were using line6 vettas
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Same! It was at The White Rabbit in San Antonio with Strapping Young Lad opening. Still the most mindblowing metal show I've seen to this day
 
The original shit like Kyuss etc were using Orange or120`s most likely with pedals in front.
 
Nickerz said:
See a lot of people doing this on JCM900 SL-Xs... what model do you have?
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I play the JCM900 SL-X. I would say it is not the amp I would choose for those tones. While it gets pretty high gain, it's still not "modern" tight without a lot of help. Great sounding amp though.
 
Mesa Rectifier all day long.

It naturally does sludge easily. Add a boost and cut some lows in the front and it can get as articulate as any Mesa Mark series amp but with more grind, and anywhere in between.
 
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